Ottawa has called in Eritrea's lone accredited diplomat in Canada to address the extortion allegations, and is weighing further legal options — including the possibility of shuttering the repressive nation's Canadian consulate

One of Africa’s most repressive dictatorships, Eritrea, has been collecting money to bankroll its military through its consulate in Toronto, according to a United Nations report obtained by the National Post.

The National Post recently revealed the Eritrean consulate in Toronto has been collecting a 2% “diaspora tax” from Eritrean-Canadians, a levy some said they paid unwillingly and called extortion. Last week, the Winnipeg Free Press reported a similar scheme in the Manitoba capital. The fundraising is controversial because of Eritrea’s brutal suppression of dissent and […]

Hagos Habteab Kflesus abandoned his post at the Eritrean embassy and claimed refugee status in 2007. Since he defected, he said his daughter, brother and parents had been imprisoned by Eritrean authorities.

The government of Eritrea, which the United Nations accuses of supplying a long list of armed groups including the al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Shabab, has been raising money in Canada by taxing Eritrean-Canadians, interviews and documents show.

With drought, famine, pirates and armed Islamist groups fighting to overthrow the government, Somalia is a country defined by its needs. It needs food. It needs to rebuild its ruined land. And it needs security. What it does not need is more guns. The United Nations imposed an arms embargo on Somalia in 1992 but […]